05-13-2022, 05:28 AM | #1 |
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
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New Disadvantage: Compulsive Worldbuilding
Compulsive Worldbuilding: You have an inner need to worldbuild. When writing about a topic, roll a self-control roll. On a failed roll you will spend 2d days to add 1dx100 words to the manuscript about something like elven horse-breeding practices or orcish tea-drinking habits. In order to remove this from a manuscript, you need to make a self-control roll or you will fight tooth and nail to keep it in. Your editor will react to you at -1. -5 points
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05-13-2022, 05:37 AM | #2 | |
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Re: New Disadvantage: Compulsive Worldbuilding
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You can always (try to) make amends with someone you had a beef with, but the unwritten lore will never have existed if it only stayed in ones head (aka, death) I have a different disad: CFBTSOTP, Compulsive flying by the seat of the pants. Edit: don't even have it statted out, I'll think of the effects ingame when it's relevant. |
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05-13-2022, 06:01 AM | #3 | |
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Re: New Disadvantage: Compulsive Worldbuilding
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05-13-2022, 06:11 AM | #4 |
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Re: New Disadvantage: Compulsive Worldbuilding
Well, this is for my upcoming supplement GURPS: Writers and Editors, so it's particularly relevant there.
It also contains a rule for Fast-Talking your editor when you've missed a deadline.
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05-13-2022, 02:29 PM | #5 | |
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Re: New Disadvantage: Compulsive Worldbuilding
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05-13-2022, 04:12 PM | #6 |
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Dreamland
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Re: New Disadvantage: Compulsive Worldbuilding
If it follows the general rules of Compulsive, it might still be worth -5. You MUST do it at least once a day, you indulge in it when you can, and you even have to make a self control roll to get into a situation where you can't do it. And if you do manage to get into a situation where you can't write your fiction, then Bad Temper kicks in.
One thing I might change is that only giving the editor a reaction penalty seems a bit too little. This disad has parts of Workaholic in it and I might extend that penalty to people Workaholic affects (but to a lesser degree). |
05-13-2022, 04:56 PM | #7 |
Join Date: May 2020
Location: Winnipeg, Canada
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Re: New Disadvantage: Compulsive Worldbuilding
Does it have levels? I kinda feel I'm at Compulsive Worldbuilding 3.
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05-13-2022, 05:17 PM | #8 |
Join Date: Mar 2008
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Re: New Disadvantage: Compulsive Worldbuilding
Instead of Bad Temper I'd say Short Attention Span because you worldbuild in your head if you can't sit down and write it. Both -10 Disads.
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05-13-2022, 05:53 PM | #9 |
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Dreamland
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Re: New Disadvantage: Compulsive Worldbuilding
I really like switching things up like this (such as picking a different -10 disad for Loner) so I'd allow either option.
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05-14-2022, 03:59 AM | #10 | |
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
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Re: New Disadvantage: Compulsive Worldbuilding
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"It began innocently enough. I looked at the templates in DF3 and began to wonder how the races related to each other. Soon I was jotting down notes about the internal politics of the Elven High Council. Two or three hours per day would be spent on discussing dwarven dying techniques. My wife left me when I spent more time on minotaur mating customs than on her. I realize now that I have a problem." Well, there's the self-control roll. Compulsive Worldbuilding (6) would be worth -10 points.
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